Nilaavinte Naattil is a 1986 Malayalam film directed by

Vijay Menon Vijay Menon is an Indian actor, editor, director and dubbing artist in Malayalam cinema. He has acted in more than 100 films in South Indian languages. He mainly handles in character roles and supporting roles. He has won Kerala State Film Aw ...

starring Prem Nazir, Seema,

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, Shaila Shanker, Lalu Alex and

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. The movie deals with the feelings of a young girl who is alone in a big lonely house at night and is left with no other option than being seduced into

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by a stranger.

Plot

The movie starts with a girl (a new face) walking lonely into a posh family residence where she is supposed to do

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for a night. The couple (Prem Nazir and Seema) were ready to attend a club party and went. Then comes the lovely filming of a young girl, alone in a big house at night. She is feeling lonely and tries to concentrate on reading, but fails and starts feeling romantic. Incidentally, her lover (Lalu Alex) enters the house and seduces her into lovemaking. She forces him out after some time. On the way to the first floor, where the baby was sleeping, she sees a stranger out a window, which makes her frightened. At the same time, the couple attending the party gets the news that the wife's ex-husband who is undergoing treatment in a

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escaped from there. They are worried that he might come to their home. Then, opening the front door on a calling bell, the baby sitter found the dead body of her lover. The appearance of a strange middle-aged man (Bharat Gopi) occurs now, who claims to hear a screaming which led him into the house. The babysitter, being upset, seeks help from the stranger. He tries to comfort her. She tells him about the frightening face she saw through the window and expresses her fear to him. He asked her to follow him upstairs. He held her and carried her to the first floor. Later he revealed that he is the ex-husband of the lady in that home. The memories of his wife made him eager for sex. He tried to

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the girl. He removed her

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, when she is left with no other option than obeying. He had a forced sex with her. In the climax, the couple, with the help of cops, get the baby back and kill the stranger. It is a different type of movie which was never experienced in Malayalam

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before or later, but it seems like the movie is not widely accepted in theaters. Maybe because of the period in which films dealing with such subjects were not acceptable. The success story could be different, if this movie were released nowadays, when something new would be accepted. The film is not available on

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release.

Cast

* Prem Nazir as Ramesh * Seema as Lakshmi *

as Balachandra Panikkar *Shaila Shanker as Mary (Babysitter) *

Kundara Johny Johny Joseph with the stage name Kundara Johny is an Indian actor in Malayalam cinema. He has acted in more than 100 films. He has also done Tamil films like ''Vaazhkai Chakram'' and ''Nadigan ''Nadigan'' () is a 1990 Indian Tamil-languag ...

as Inspector John * Lalu Alex as Johny (Lover of Mary) *

as Venu * Satheesh * Sunder * Ben * Gilbanks * Delphin

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

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and the lyrics were written by

Kavalam Narayana Panicker Kavalam Narayana Panicker (1 May 1928 – 26 June 2016) was an Indian dramatist, theatre director, and poet. He has written over 26 Malayalam plays, many adapted from classical Sanskrit drama and Shakespeare, notably Kalidasa's ''Vikramorvasiy ...

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0352641, Nilaavinte Nattil 1986 films 1980s Malayalam-language films